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• ' - 41 , . _ An, • r f 4 . y 41 ;14 ,c -,t • -eit- • NO ~: 4t i' 4Cl e z MONDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1818. NTTLTI rl3 ER 14163.] PICTU ‘ILLING-OFFICE, Oct. 19, 1818. [PRICE SEVENPFNCE: tIE VICTUALLING a His 111-IJESTY'S .V2IT'Y do hereby give Notice, 4 t 021. Tuesd ay , t h e Sd of November next, they will" be rea, to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat *.6r Eight 'Hundred Mille of GOLDSTONE or BROWN WIL LO V RODS (not less thanforta-riArhtinches in leng-th), to be answerable to Smnples, of not less than API' hundred tech Great Tale, to be produced with the Tenders; to be de in 1110 71 thl y priporti°"' ) into his ilajesty' s V ictualling Stores at Deptford, between the 16h December and the I ' 4 o .f . March next; EXCHEQUER'BILL OFFICE, October 31, 181 e. PUBLICATIONS: LITERARY REV lIL W. TO BE PAID OFF. All EXCHEQUER BILLS dated in the Months of December, This Day was published, price es. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, or CRITI CAL JOITRNA,L.—No. LX. CONTENTS.—Mad. de Stael,.sur la Revolution Franoise— Dante—Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature--American Geology--Shipwreelcs of the Alceste and the Medusa—earkt. Kato on the Length of the Pendulum--The Abbe Georgel— linonaparte and the Elba MS.—Prison Discjplitte—Education of the Poor—Bum!: Reform—Seas on Art and Italy. Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. ; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. London. A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY of VOYAGES Into th• ARCTIC REGIONS; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of Discovering a North-East, North-West, or POLAR SAGE, between the ATLANTIC and PACIFIC froth ; earliest periods of Scandinavian Navigation, to the De parture of the Recent EXPEDITIONS, under the Orders of Captains ROSS and BUCHAN.—By JOHN BAR ROW, Esq. 7817, and JanuaiY, 1818. - Supply, 1817....0.18,000,000,-57 Geo. 111. Cap. 16. Supply, 1 517.... k. 9,000„000, 57 Geo. 111. Cap. 80. 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We take the earliest opportunity of drawing the atteution of our Readers to the prksent valet. able Wark, which is first pu b lished this day. The talenti, scientific knowledge, extensive experi ence, and high character of the Author. , must, indeed, attract particular notice to any prmluction which bears the recommendation of his name. The Work is introduced by the following brief and modest Preface ." The two Expeditions.recently fitted ou• for exploring a northern conimunice! ion Let We'.e;il tha Atlantic and Pacific, Occins were of a nature to excite public attention, and to engage large share of general cooversatiom But as many 'etude and absurd notions seemed to be enterained on the subject, it was thought that a biiet hiStoey,ar _ ranged in ch rono l ogica l or d er, o f the clangers and cliffic t olties, and progressive discoveries of tor. iner attempts, might serve as a prOper introduc tion •to the narratives of the present voyages, which, wise her successful or not, will be expect _ed by the public. " In the, compilation of this brief history no 'Ketensioris are set up to authorship—the colleLt ing of the. materials,. though widely scat', red through many large and some few scarce volumes, employed no great share either, of the writer's time or research ; in their present form they may be the means of saving both to those who fe e l di posed to acquire a 'general knowledge of what has been and wbat yet remains to be accom- But thoUgh,as Mr. BARROW observes, that "in :he compilation of this brief history no preten &ions 'are set up. tb authorsi,ip," yet it 'is obvious that he is well entitled to the praise of judgment in Jiis selections, and 'of perspicuity in his recitals.--. We will not foreitall the pleasure which all intel ligent Readers must receive trotn this 'work, by extracting any of the narrative parts at present but.as the Expeditions in question are of vast i rn .. portance, and as the opinions of this Author must be of great weight on the subject, we shad con. fine ourselves to the concluding Section, iii which `ie states his sentiments as to the practicability of mire success in a pursuit not Merely interesting 'l'm ten o'clock in the .morning till one in the after. noon, for the purpose of receiving the same; and, for the greater dispatch, the bearers of the said Bills are desired to place each de3cription of Bills in separate Lists (which are to be obtained at this O(fice),classing them in the Order of their re spective dates, such as are for the same Amount heipg nume rically arranged, and specifying- the principal Sums and Interest due thereon, computed from, but excluding the days on which they are respectively dated, to the said 23c day of To whom communications for the Editor are to be ad dressed ; Anderson and Chase, West Smithfield ; and also to Messrs. 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And by l ' a f & ur c - . i 11 a iesty's kigi`:et passed in the 5811) y ear o f his presen_ . - - in k iv , "itul ed, "AU Act fur enalsling the Officers h is lik 'tei: e i% k is'Y and their Representatives, to dr!.w . f a o n r d and 3d ttill 'heir Half -pay," it is enacted by The I" . tv , s. kir l 'et 4 the smd .ct, " that if any O ffi cer in his Maje , . tirri 4 :l who shall be entitled to receive ally sum of moneyfo r' til l ' 4.1441unt of his Half -Pay, shall he desirous of draw . ii i g hi a s 11.,j,:it l'xchalige for the same upon the Conueis , ioners c hill "Y.' Nary, instead of receiving the same by Remittance , h e ,- 1 '4ll signify such desire by Letter to the Treasurer let I:, k4JestY,'s N'ii.• •• and that if any Of fi cer in his Ma y- SN. ' .. }. • • sum of um ).tit f,,r `"Y, Who shall be entitled to receive any having ° ls It. ifur.°ll a ccount of Half-Pay,shall be desirous . ot 441/40..4,-1 'iy Paid to bin, by Extract, at any of - -Ins Maj esty's ,1; Yards, where Clerks for the Payment of Wages for the 1 4 1 , :1411 reside, instead of receiving the same by Iteinit 11'41'. ail! Or Bill of Exchange; be is to apply either II- 1 % Clt il Na v y i. . • 4311. the 1 ay-Office in to the ' ''tie 4 t e‘' of such Dock,Yard, signifying such his detire." 'its ll l ; .8 l'ereliy further given, that the Half-Pay endbigtloief -4\,,t ePtthiber, 1818 , will commence Paying on the 9t h l 'ht• 1114"., and all Prsons desirous of drawing for, or of , 1 a C 111 , ,•,,. , • r ett t , ci. 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By Thomas Clarkson, M.A. • In 2 vols. evo. price 11. 45,-in boards. in point of geographical's d nautical science, but which, if ultiina , ely prosperous, may be highly beneficial to mankind " The failure of so inany Expeditions, of an iahsivact has netti given in Ole pi eceiiing pages, is Certainly rather of a discouraging fiat tit e ; and after so many unsuccessful tor the disc ovary a passage between the Atlantic and,the Pacific Oceans,. by the north-east, the north;_auil the north-west, it would seem ohtettaohable inter that no such passage exists, and that 'here tore 'the molest Expeditions . might have been spared- . --but the same interencemight with equal !airitess haVe been drawn atter the first three or tour attempts. The progressive geograp. y of the northern regions was very slow" but it hat) been progres s ive : yet much wi►hin the l►mits of practical navigation still remains unexplored. " Of the three directions ii► which - a p ssage has been sought for, from the Atlantic to the Pa- Cifie, that by the north-east hulas out the least en couraging hope Ondeed the various unsuccessful . • attem►►pts by the English and the Dutch on the one ,side, and by the Russians on the other, go tar to prove the utter impracticability of a navigable passage round the northern extremity of Asia ; though the whole of this coast, with the excep tion, perhaps, of a single point, has been navi gated in several detached- puts and at dilicreut times. " But the question of a north-west passage, which would be !noel) shorter, and,o(a polar one, which would be the shortest of all, rests on very different grounds. That of the north pole may be approached by sea, Jias been an opinion enter tained both by experienced navigators and 'by men eminent for their learning and science ; that se- Neralships have at different times been carried three or four degrees beyond Spitibergen and the usual limits of the whale fishery, is not merely a mat• ter of opinion; and if the polar sea be navigable 'to the height of 84 degrees, there seems to be no othei physical obstruction, than the intervention of land, to the practical navigation of that sea to the north pole itself ; as there is no reason to sop, pose that the, temperature of that point is lower in winter, while it is probably much higher in the summer, than on the parallel of 80 de grees ; as it is well known th at t h e l at i tu d e of 8 0 degrees is generally not colder on the sane meri dian, and in many places much less severe, than that of 70 degrees is in others. The Russians 'pass the' winter very well on Spitzbergen, but they have not ventured to winter on Nova Zem bla, many degrees to the southward of it. Deer .live and thrive in 80 degrees latitude on Spitzber gen, but cannot live in 75 degrees on Nova Zem• bla. Neither does the quantity of ice, whether formed on the surface of the main ocean, or float. ed out of the bays and rivers' and front the coasts depend on the degree of latitude where it is found. Ships, for instance, navigate freely every .year round the North Cape in the parallel of 72 or 73 degrees, and proceed along the coast of Spitz bergen, without impediment trout ice, as high up as 80 degrees, while,on the opposite coast of Ame rica the sea is not navigable at all, fora great part of the year, from 45 degrees upwards; and